100 years ago
June 26, 1917
• NEWPORT -- Grover C. Osborne, aged about 29, was shot and killed this morning soon after sunrise by Mrs. Randall Williard, aged about 32, while he was at work in a field three miles east of Swifton, 24 miles from here. Officers say that Mrs. Willard borrowed a shotgun and went to the field where Osborne was at work. They say she hid behind a tree and when he stopped at the end of a row, she shot and killed him with one charge. Officers say she told them that she shot Osborne because he made alleged slanderous statements about her on several occasions.
50 years ago
June 26, 1967
• Eight persons, seven of them members of one family, were injured about noon Sunday in a two-car collision on state Highway 5, three miles inside the North Little Rock city limits. Percy Best, 38, of 2 Fairfield Drive, North Little Rock, one of the drivers, was treated at University hospital for multiple injuries and then admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital at Little Rock. He was reported in satisfactory condition.
25 years ago
June 26, 1992
• EL DORADO -- Police in El Dorado say they have plenty of leads in the April 28 slaying of a florist, as well as a possible motive. What they don't have is something the department hopes will result in help from the FBI in investigating the death of Billy Ponder. That item is an autopsy report from the state medical examiner's office. The FBI has agreed to use the autopsy report to compile a profile of the killer. Ponder, who was well-known in the southern Arkansas city, was found stabbed to death in his flower store.
10 years ago
June 26, 2007
• The Arkansas State Police has agreed to share with the FBI information from an investigation into the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy Friday by a West Memphis police officer, in case the federal agency decides to conduct a civil rights investigation into the death, a state police spokesman said Monday. DeAuntae Farrow died just before 10 p.m. at the Steeplechase Apartment complex in West Memphis, where he was shot by an officer who police supervisors have said mistook the child's silver toy gun for a real weapon. Some relatives have disputed that the boy even had a toy gun, saying he was just carrying a bottle of soda and a bag of chips.
Metro on 06/26/2017